Vladimir Zhirinovsky

Leader of Liberal Democratic Party of Russia

“Turchynov said that it is necessary to blow up the Crimean Bridge. Perhaps lunatics can be found who will try to do that. In that case, Ukraine will cease to exist as a territory that considers itself a state.”

The former secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, did not say it was necessary to blow up the Crimean Bridge; he said Ukraine’s new Neptune cruise missile is capable of demolishing it.

Anonymous

RT author

“The lack of critical thinking is particularly puzzling given the fact that rebel forces in eastern Ukraine have never been associated with the neo-Nazis, while the government in Kiev has relied heavily on so-called volunteer battalions, composed of Ukrainian nationalists and foreign neo-Nazi sympathizers, to do the fighting.”

After a missile was seized in raids on Italian neo-Nazis, RT accused Western media of anti-Russian bias for reporting the extremists had fought with Russian-separatists in eastern Ukraine. But RT itself "skipped fact-checking" when denying that neo-Nazis are waging war on Russia's behalf in Donbas.

Sergey Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister

“According to the minister, Iran's decision to start uranium enrichment above the level of 3.67%, which is provided for by the nuclear deal, does not violate either the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons or the safeguards agreement with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency], or the additional protocol to that agreement.”

The Russian foreign minister is correct that Tehran’s decision to enrich uranium above 3.67% does not violate the two agreements and a protocol he named. However, it breaches the one agreement Lavrov failed to mention – the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

The evidence points to Russian culpability. Russia was blamed early because its forces had already shot down aircraft and the Ukrainian army was fighting an enemy that didn’t have air support. Russia produced multiple false narratives about the incident almost immediately after it happened.

The Russian ambassador’s reinforces Belgrade’s position that Serbia needs “space” to make its own decisions regarding its European integration and relations with Kosovo. This refrain often serves as Belgrade’s excuse for stalling EU-brokered negotiations while pursuing the partition of Kosovo.

In U.S. film director Oliver Stone’s latest interview of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president covers a variety of topics -- from former U.S. President Barack Obama’s alleged broken promises to conspiracy theories about Georgian snipers on Ukraine's Euromaidan.

Andrei Koshkin

Head of the Plekhanov Academy’s political science and sociology department

“The collective West continues the campaign to discredit the efforts by Syria and Russia aimed at countering the terrorists in the Idlib zone. They [the West] are conducting all possible informational provocations, engaging the ‘White Helmets’ who tell tales about the ‘atrocities’ of Bashar Asad’s regime that brings death to ordinary Syrians. But at the same time, they do not provide any real proof of their claims, and this kind of disinformation is very difficult to counter. Especially if biased news agencies like Fox News and CBS are used to distribute various fake stories.”

UN recorded 29 incidents involving attacks on 25 health facilities, transport and personnel, 45 attacks on schools since the end of April; at least 544 civilians, including 130 children have been killed, another 2,117 people injured in the attacks carried out by Russian jets and the Syrian army

Elena Serova

Russian State Duma Deputy, ex-cosmonaut

"From the board of the International Space Station, I got to see with the naked eye, how the bombs and shells exploded in the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk. And they were flying from the side of the location of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At that time, unarmed people died there."

Serova claimed she saw artillery shelling, at night, from an approximate altitude of 408 km (254 mi), and was able to determine where the shells were being fired from and where they landed. This is impossible.

A Russian political analyst claimed on state TV that liberal democracies morph into atheistic regimes which conduct religious witch hunts. But the evidence shows that illiberal and authoritarian regimes, including Russia itself, pose a far greater threat to religious freedom.